Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: European social movements in solidarity with migrants have taken many forms, from maritime struggles at the edge of territory to antideportation protests in urban centers. Over the last five years, a new site of solidarity and struggle has emerged in the skies, with activist pilots and civil society organizations launching their own aerial surveillance operations to challenge the state's monopoly over the aerial view. The materiality of aviation and the legal and spatial systems that govern flying mean that the scope for political action and solidarity practices via the plane is always constrained. This article examines the affordances and limitations of aerial infrastructure as a vehicle for contesting state power and expressing solidarity with the agential movement/s of migrants.
Source: Critical Times
Author: Angela Smith
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Exile Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407209524